Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

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    3 days ago

    There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse. The reward is too low for all the work of making a post visible, and it won’t carry to the next post, essentially starting all over again.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse.

      There presumably is. Some metric decides visibility on the feeds. That algorithm not being based on corporate profitability doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

      • Mac@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        In fact, it doesn’t matter if there’s no internal incentive. If it’s being indexed and shows in searches it will have all the incentive needed to maximise SEO for profit.

        • mapto@feddit.bg
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          Google will never rank fediverse posts high. Said otherwise, the external incentives are not there either.